---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND VARIOUS LAWS RELATED TO HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "TO AMEND VARIOUS LAWS RELATED TO HIGHER EDUCATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 417"
citation: "Arkansas SB 417 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dotson", "Maddox"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-10T20:12:04+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-31T18:37:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ea2e50a-9b6d-4929-9460-9f0b6e00b195"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c795dce4d5b74fd49671a77cb7ebe430a303264eec8e25ea6d7f1f8eaf8ea95a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas SB 417 (2025) — TO AMEND VARIOUS LAWS RELATED TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Act 402** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=402.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 417** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB417.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Dotson — primary (person)
- Maddox — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-03-10T20:12:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-10T22:39:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T18:41:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13T20:11:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T20:11:44+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-13T22:05:04+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-13T22:32:31+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T18:39:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19T20:13:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-19T20:13:46+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-20T00:41:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-20T00:41:27+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-03-20T13:40:19+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-03-20T13:40:22+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31T18:37:20+00:00** Notification that SB417 is now Act 402 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ea2e50a-9b6d-4929-9460-9f0b6e00b195`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).